This blog is really a journal of my journey into the world of art.
I have no formal art training and have not done much more than doodle since I was a kid. But I am learning that art is an important aspect that has been missing from my life.
Thanks to some wonderful extremely artistic friends in the fountain pen world and on Twitter I have begun this journey - thanks, Mia, for insisting that everyone is an artist!
Friday, August 19, 2011
Sketch a Day #22
Trying to slow down and really see the details. The slowing down part is really difficult for me, I want to see results, quick. I think that has been, and is, my biggest obstacle.
There's a certain meditative quality to slowing down and getting lost in the details. Staying in right-brained zen mode for an hour or so is better than any Happy Drug. After a while you can become addicted to, as Danny Gregory words it, "the visceral pleasures of cross-hatching."
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There's a certain meditative quality to slowing down and getting lost in the details. Staying in right-brained zen mode for an hour or so is better than any Happy Drug. After a while you can become addicted to, as Danny Gregory words it, "the visceral pleasures of cross-hatching."
Great sketch!
Slowing down, being fully present - these may be the hardest things of all, and the most necessary to our art. . .
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